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Tag Archives: Neal Adams
COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (7 March 2022)
If, like me, you have been obsessing about the events in Ukraine, it may be healthy to take a small break every once in a while, just to manage the anxiety. For example, here is a reminder that comics can … Continue reading
Posted in GLIMPSES INTO THE PAST
Tagged Adventures into Darkness, Artie Simek, Astonishing, Bill Everett, Carl Burgos, Chuck Cuidera, covers, horror, House of Secrets, Jack Cole, Jack Davis, Joe Maneely, Journey into Mystery, Marvel Tales, Mike Peppe, Mike Sekowsky, Neal Adams, Sol Brodsky, Stan Goldberg, Strange Tales, Tales from the Crypt, Web of Evil, World of Suspense
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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (13 September 2021)
Your super reminder that comics can be awesome: Superman vs. Muhammad Ali Superman Adventures #3 Superman: Strength #2
COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (15 December 2020)
Back to our usual programming. Your weekly reminder that comics can be awesome, Jack Kirby edition:
Expanding The War of the Worlds – part 1
A couple of months ago, I recommended (re)visiting H.G. Well’s The War of the Worlds. This classic sci-fi horror novel became a massive influence on pop culture as the urtext for books, films, television shows, theatre plays, and video games about … Continue reading
Posted in WEBS OF FICTION
Tagged Alan Davis, Amazing Adventures, Bill Mantlo, Cold War, Don McGregor, Fred van Lente, Gerry Conway, Greg Wright, H.G. Wells, horror, Howard Chaykin, James Robinson, Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, Killraven, Manuel Garcia, Mark Farmer, Neal Adams, P. Craig Russell, Paul Cornell, politics, Roy Thomas, science fiction, War of the Worlds
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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (1 June 2020)
Among the outrage and chaos, your heart-pumping reminder that comics can be awesome:
COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (13 April 2020)
As it often happens in scary times, the horror genre provides both a perversely comforting, vaccine-like sedative against overwhelming anxiety and useful metaphors to consider the wider processes at play. So here is your spooky reminder that comics can be … Continue reading
The despicable pre-Crisis Man-Bat
Man-Bat isn’t one of the most inspired concepts in Batman comics. Taking to the extreme the notion that great villains are an inversion of the heroes, Man-Bat’s name is a literal reversal of Batman’s… As for his origin, it’s just … Continue reading
Posted in GOTHAM CITIZENS
Tagged Bob Haney, Chuck Dixon, Dick Giordano, Don Newton, Doug Moench, Flint Henry, Frank Robbins, horror, Jamie Delano, John Bolton, Kelley Jones, Man-Bat, Neal Adams
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15 wedding-themed covers of Batman comics
Valentine, Schmalentine. Still, everything can serve as a pretext to browse through goofy covers of the Batman family of comics… Throughout the years, brilliant artists like Neal Adams, Curt Swan, and Joëlle Jones have had a field day enveloping the … Continue reading
Posted in COVERS OF BATMAN COMICS
Tagged covers, Curt Swan, Joëlle Jones, Neal Adams
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